The EPA's Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) Rule: Putting Money on ACE Is a Bad Bet -- Part II

Center for Progressive Reform 2018-10-10

Summary:

Part 2 of 2: Energy projections demonstrate a clear trend for clean energy and away from fossil fuels. These trends, directly and negatively, affect traditional electric utilities. About the time that rooftop solar financing was being consolidated by third parties such as SolarCity and Sunrun, utilities began to worry about a "death spiral." In such a scenario, customers would install solar rooftop panels, generate some or all of their electricity, and then either reduce their utility bills or, in some instances, sell their excess electricity back to the utility. To the extent that customers left the grid, the utility would have to recoup their fixed costs from a smaller customer base, thus increasing electricity prices and forcing more customers off the grid -- hence the downward spiral.

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http://www.progressivereform.org/CPRBlog.cfm?idBlog=53E96F35-D839-B4DD-609A84B4D89BB9B2

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Authors:

Joseph Tomain

Date tagged:

10/10/2018, 14:38

Date published:

10/10/2018, 15:00